Concept Neighbourhoods in Lexical Databases

Priss, Uta; Old, L. John

Abstract

This paper discusses results from an experimental study of concept
neighbourhoods in WordNet and Roget’s Thesaurus. The general aim of this research is to determine ways in which neighbourhood lattices can be derived in real time from a lexical database and displayed on the web. In order to be readable the lattices must not be too large, not contain overlapping concepts or labels and must be calculated within seconds. Lattices should, furthermore, not be too small and they should contain sufficient complexity to be interesting for the viewer. For these purposes the sizes of the lattices of different types of concept neighbourhoods have been calculated. Using the size information should help with the task of on-line generation of the lattices.

Citation

Priss, U., & Old, L. J. (2010, March). Concept Neighbourhoods in Lexical Databases. Presented at International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis ICFCA 2010: Formal Concept Analysis, Agadir, Morocco

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis ICFCA 2010: Formal Concept Analysis
• Start Date: Mar 15, 2010
• End Date: Mar 18, 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Deposit Date: Aug 31, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 31, 2010
• Electronic ISSN: 1611-3349
• Publisher: Springer
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 5986
• Pages: 283-295
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Series Number: 5986
• Series ISSN: 0302-9743
• Book Title: Formal Concept Analysis
• ISBN: 9783642119279
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11928-6_20
• Keywords: concept neighbourhoods; WordNet; Roget's Thesaurus; lexical database; lattices
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3824
• Contract Date: Aug 31, 2010